Tom Crean was asked last week about the prospect of using the last remaining scholarship Georgia had available for next season. He set the bar high.

“I’ll look at it like it’s a piece of 24-karat gold,” Crean said. “I mean, we’re going to use it wisely.”

Georgia chose to use that scholarship, perhaps wisely, perhaps poorly, only time will tell. The player is Ignas Sargiunas, a 6-foot-5 combo guard from Lithuania, who went public with his commitment to Georgia on Thursday.

It’s hard to say what kind of immediate impact Sargiunas will have. (There’s a scouting report on Sargiunas at Draft Express.) Crean can’t comment until he signs, but he did say last week that if the Bulldogs signed somebody, they would hopefully get “somebody that could help us right now. Somebody who could definitely shoot the ball, no matter what that position is. Somebody we could grow with inside the program.”